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Did you know that First Lady Grace Mugabe at one time wanted to be a preacher?  That is what she said two years after marrying President Mugabe. She said when…

Zimbabwe has been ranked as the country with the least economic freedom in sub-Saharan Africa and only beats North Korea as the worst in the world, according to the right-wing Heritage Foundation’s 2011 Index of Economic Freedom which has just been released.

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In early 2004, the government clamped down on ZANU-PF business people, Philip Chiyangwa, Jane Mutasa and James Makamba.  Most people thought this was a prelude to cleaning up the business…

The arrest of Philip Chiyangwa, James Makamba and Jane Mutasa, on charges of obstructing justice, externalising funds and illegally dealing in foreign currency, should have seen leaders of the Movement…

Isn't it ironic that a person becomes a prime minister for five years, fights bitterly for the advancement of the black nationalist movement, offers land to ex-combatants and ends up…

There was dead silence as the deadline for Kimberley Process members to decide what to do about Zimbabwe’s Marange diamonds came and passed on Monday.  Outgoing chairman, Boaz Hirsch, had asked members to vote on the revised Brussels Proposal by January 10, but it appears not a single country responded and the deadline is said to have been extended to January 17.

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David Plotz of the internet magazine Slate, described President Robert Mugabe in the run-up to the 2000 parliamentary elections as a "scheming survivor", a man who never ran out of…

In the late 1990s Leo Mugabe was almost everywhere. He was in soccer, mobile phones, construction. Name it, he was a principal player or partner.  Here is one joke that…

Zimbabwe seems to have had a good start to 2011. It has received good publicity from an unlikely quarter, The New York Post. The Post , the 13th oldest newspaper in the United States but generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continuously as a daily, on January 4 had a picture splash of Zimbabwe’s tourist attractions including the Victoria Falls, the Hwange National Park, the Victoria Falls bridge and the capital Harare.

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AfroBarometer which recently released its survey that showed that 70 percent of the Zimbabweans polled wanted elections this year but nearly half did not want to disclose the party they would vote for says its data should not be used to make any predictions about forthcoming elections.

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